Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 20 Jun 2026

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06/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 520

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:48:24

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (2 shows)

4. Science Magazine (1 shows)

5. Velvet (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Libsyn (13 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	673	Simplecast	63
2	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1344	Megaphone	58
3	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	535	Simplecast	63
4	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	628	Simplecast	48
5	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1135	Simplecast	62
6	Big Ideas Lab	Mission.org	Science	62	Simplecast	73
7	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	347	Megaphone	69
8	Health Optimization Medicine Podcast	Health Optimization Medicine and Practice	Science	195	Libsyn	62
9	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1416	Simplecast	63
10	Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life	Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor	Science	340	Simplecast	63
11	Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration	Corinna Bellizzi	Science	364	Simplecast	52
12	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	520	Spotify for Podcasters	28
13	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1568	Simplecast	58
14	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	473	Megaphone	63
15	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	729	Libsyn	43
16	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	510	Libsyn	48
17	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	25	PRX	69
18	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
19	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	94	Megaphone	83
20	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	305	Omny Studio	62
21	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	497	Buzzsprout	42
22	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	313	Megaphone	53
23	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	215	Megaphone	73
24	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	368	Transistor	73
25	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	446	Libsyn	42
26	Songbirding	Rob Porter	Science	266	Transistor	69
27	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
28	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
29	The Best of Coast to Coast AM	iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM	Science	2010	Omny Studio	48
30	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	850	Omny Studio	48
31	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	336	Acast	49
32	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	429	Libsyn	52
33	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
34	Science Magazine Podcast	Science Magazine	Science	662	Megaphone	32
35	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	355	PRX	53
36	BirdNote Daily	BirdNote	Science	1095	Simplecast	59
37	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1593	Unknown	48
38	The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week	Popular Science	Science	237	Megaphone	63
39	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
40	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
41	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
42	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1109	Libsyn	38
43	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	7	Simplecast	52
44	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	222	Simplecast	58
45	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
46	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	368	PRX	53
47	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	493	Audioboom	53
48	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
49	Outside/In	NHPR	Science	411	Megaphone	48
50	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
51	Constant Wonder	BYUradio	Science	238	Unknown	73
52	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	376	ART19	42
53	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	88	ART19	52
54	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	40	Acast	94
55	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	76	PRX	59
56	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	48	Podbean	62
57	Osterholm Update Details temporarily unavailable	CIDRAP	Science	227	Unknown	54
58	Unbiased Science	@unbiasedscipod	Science	235	Simplecast	83
59	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1975	Megaphone	32
60	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	148	Simplecast	58
61	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	601	ART19	42
62	The Wild with Chris Morgan	KUOW News and Information	Science	140	Omny Studio	42
63	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
64	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	158	Buzzsprout	53
65	The American Birding Podcast	American Birding Association	Science	415	Libsyn	37
66	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	386	Podbean	41
67	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	43	Unknown	89
68	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	743	Megaphone	63
69	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	381	Audioboom	63
70	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	626	Spreaker	69
71	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	38	Libsyn	53
72	TheThinkingAtheist	The Thinking Atheist	Science	810	Spreaker	54
73	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
74	Bigfoot Crossroads	Matt Knapp	Science	234	Spreaker	49
75	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1363	Omny Studio	38
76	Your Brain On	Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai	Science	69	Libsyn	68
77	SASQUATCH THEORY	SASQUATCH THEORY	Science	306	Spreaker	84
78	Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo	Bigfoot and Beyond LLC	Science	458	Spreaker	59
79	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	118	N/A	N/A
80	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
81	My Bigfoot Sighting	Vic Cundiff	Science	244	Spreaker	53
82	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	643	Libsyn	58
83	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
84	Beyond the Human	Beyond the Human	Science	40	Spotify for Podcasters	48
85	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	442	Megaphone	62
86	Psychology of the Strange	Tara Perreault	Science	52	Acast	73
87	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1146	BBC	28
88	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	672	BBC	38
89	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	239	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
91	Just the Zoo of Us	Ellen & Christian Weatherford	Science	373	Simplecast	48
92	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	702	Libsyn	43
93	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	346	Simplecast	53
94	Podcast UFO	Producer: Donna Killeen	Science	986	Spreaker	53
95	Into the Impossible With Brian Keating	Big Bang Productions Inc.	Science	635	Megaphone	58
96	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
97	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1095	PRX	63
98	BrainStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2001	Omny Studio	49
99	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
100	The Pulse	WHYY	Science	218	PRX	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in USA.
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